On the structure of isolated singularities for semilinear elliptic equations

Abstract

In this paper, we study isolated singularities of the following semilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta u+\frac{1}{2}x\cdot \nabla u+\frac{1}{q-1}u-u^q=0$ in $\Omega \setminus \{0\}$, where $n\ge 3$, $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^n$ is a domain, $0\in \Omega$ and $q>1$. This equation arises in the study of blow-up profiles of semilinear heat equations. For $\frac{n}{n-2}<q<\frac{n+2}{n-2}$, we establish a complete classification of isolated singularities for nonnegative solutions and characterize the precise asymptotic behavior of singular solutions. Our results improve those of Guedda and Kirane (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 1995: 3595-3603), where analogous results were obtained only for radially symmetric positive solutions. In addition, we also derive the asymptotic behavior of solutions in the Serrin critical case $q=\frac{n}{n-2}$ and the supercritical case $q>\frac{n+2}{n-2}$.

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